Five Minutes Quotes - Page 19

• I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.

  Woody Harrelson

  School, College, Twenties

  "The Gospel Truths of Woody Harrelson". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. February 9, 2012.

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• The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.

  Charlie Brooker

  Years, Differences, Smartphones

  "Apple's software updates are like changing the water in a fish tank. I'd rather let the fish die" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2014.

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• We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.

  Vangelis

  Dark, Musical, Age

  "My Greek Odyssey with Alexander" by Peter Culshaw, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 06, 2005.

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• HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

  Charles Simonyi

  Use, Ham, Radio

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• If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.

  Michael Patrick King

  Girl, Fun, Nests

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• I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

  Dennis Prager

  Ideas, Mind, Minutes

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• I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

  Garry Hynes

  Winning, Firsts, Minutes

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• And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.

  Michel Faber

  People, Mind, Substance

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• Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

  Lynda Obst

  Sick, Phrases, Film

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• I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. Indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing you think about. And the oxygen has been sucked out of the credit markets.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Mean, Thinking, Oxygen

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

  Charles Dickens

  Party, Mean, Men

  Bleak House ch. 1 (1853)

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• Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Women, House

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• I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Heart, Minutes, Five

  Source: collider.com

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• When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Drifting Off, Goal, Finding Yourself

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• I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Minutes, Conversation

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  The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Trust, Witty

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks

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• We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.

  Brian Clough

  Home, Night, Wife

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• Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Running, Book, Home

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• I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

  Jamie Foxx

  Christmas, Valentine, Years

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• Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Giving, Minutes

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• I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

  Josh Groban

  Butterfly, Helping, Freak

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• The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Prayer, People

  "Os Guinness Calls for a New Christian Renaissance". Interview with Ginny Mooney, www.christianpost.com. June 18, 2011.

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• It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Art, Children, Practice

  "Easy does it" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 01, 2005.

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• There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

  Penn Jillette

  Spring, Arrogance, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Reading, Minutes

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